Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.